Shibu Soren

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NEW DELHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Shibu Soren , who was elected to Lok Sabha from Dumka in Jharkhand, today took oath as the member of the House. 70-year-old Soren was a Union Minister and Chief Minister of Jharkhand. He was first elected to Lok Sabha in 1980 and then again in 1989, 1991 and 1996. In 2002, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha, but resigned when he won the Dumka Lok Sabha seat in a by-election the same year. He was re-elected in 2004.

NEW DELHI: About 58 per cent of MPs, who were elected to the new Lok Sabha, are 'first-timers', making them the highest number of debutant members elected to the lower house in the last 30 years. According to PRS Legislative Research, 315 MPs have been elected for the first-time to the Lok Sabha in the 2014 general elections. This is the highest number of first-time MPs in Lok Sabha in the last three decades. These numbers include MPs who might have been Members of the Rajya Sabha before but have been elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time, a statement said.

RANCHI: The BJP in Jharkhand has fared as per expectations, winning in seven Lok Sabha constituencies and establishing comfortable lead in six others out of total 14 seats in the state. First timers Bidyut Baran Mahto (Jamshedpur), Vishnu Dayal Ram (Palamau-SC), Jayant Sinha (Hazaribagh) Laxman Gilua (Singhbhum-ST) and former MPs Ram Tahal Choudhary (Ranchi) and Ravindra Kumar Pandey won comfortably. According to Election Commission (EC) sources, Ram, the former Jharkhand Police chief, beat RJD's Manoj Kumar in Palamau by 2,62,456 votes from Palamau.

RANCHI: An estimated 13.37 per cent polling was registered till 9 AM in the four Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand where polling is on in the third and last phase today. Polling is on in Dumka, Raj Mahal, Godda and Dhanbad seats where a total 72 candidates are in the fray. A total electorate of 61,04,050, including 28,84,434 women, is expected to exercise their franchise in 7,454 booths in the four constituencies. Former chief ministers Shibu Soren (JMM) and Babulal Marandi (Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantric)

DUMKA: JMM supremo Shibu Soren today asserted that "people's wave is sweeping" Jharkhand in favour of the UPA alliance and not that of BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. "There is no Modi wave. It's people's wave that is sweeping in favour of the UPA alliance. With parties having the same ideology coming on one platform, the wave is in favour of the ruling alliance -- JMM-Congress-RJD and it will show when results will come out," Soren said here. To a query, he said his party's alliance with the Congress was stitched in the interest of the people and not on any loss or gain motto.

DUMKA: An epic battle of two former chief ministers is unfolding in the Dumka (ST) seat with sitting MP Shibu Soren of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha looking to fend off the challenge from Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)'s Babulal Marandi even as a resurgent BJP seeks to turn the tables on both. BJP has fielded Sunil Soren, a one-time protege of Shibu Soren, to try and prevent an eighth Lok Sabha poll win for the JMM chief here in tomorrow's elections with the presence of Marandi in the fray adding a twist to the plot.

NEW DELHI: Former coal secretary PC Parakh's memoirs may have come as a second shock to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after his former media adviser Sanjay Baru's book, especially since he backed Parakh in 2005 even as the then coal minister Shibu Soren accused the bureaucrat of being a stooge of the previous BJP-led National Democratic Alliance regime. The confidential letters exchanged between the PM, Soren, Parakh and then cabinet secretary BK Chaturvedi published in the book reveal that the prime minister expressed "full faith" in the coal secretary and ignored Soren's letter to him stating that Parakh could create a rift in the ruling coalition.

NEW DELHI: Former coal secretary, P.C. Parakh, has alleged ex-ministers Shibu Soren and Dasari Narayan Rao , wanted an acting chairmancum-managing director of Coal India, Shashi Kumar, to cough upRs 50 lakh for his appointment as a regular CMD and Rs 10 lakh as a monthly pay-out. They initiated a probe against him when he refused. Parakh said politicians openly asked for money for appointing CMDs of public sector undertakings and certain members of parliament had become "extortionists and black-mailers.

NEW DELHI: Various Coal ministers including Shibu Soren and Dasari Narayana Rao besides MPs cutting across the political class scuttled reforms in the Coal ministry that could have prevented the coal scam despite full support of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in pushing reforms, former Coal Secretary P C Parakh said today. "These two ministers resolutely opposed my proposal to put coal blocks to open bidding. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister was not able to control his ministers in the proposal that I made in 2004...I saw in the Ministry how Chief Executives and Directors of PSEs are appointed," he told reporters here.

RANCHI: Sitting MP and JMM supremo Shibu Soren will contest from the Dumka Lok Sabha constituency in the ensuing general elections. "Besides Guruji (Soren) contesting from Dumka seat, Vijay Hansda will contest from Raj Mahal and MLA Jagannath Mahato from Giridih seats," party general secretaries Suprio Bhattacharya and Vinod Kumar Pandey said while announcing the list of JMM candidates. They said the candidate for Jamshedpur seat would be announced within a few days. The JMM will contest four Lok Sabha seats as per the pre-poll seat adjustment with the Congress, leaving 10 seats to the alliance partner in the Hemant Soren government.